Have mysterious duolingo friends you don't want anymore? Remove them with this script inspired by Travis Shears

poetry.toml

[tool.poetry]
name = "remove_duo_friends"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Felix Sargent <felix.sargent@gmail.com>"]
readme = "README.md"

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.8"
requests = "^2.31.0"
playwright = "^1.43.0"


[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

remove_duo_friends.py

"""
Have mysterious duolingo friends you don't want anymore? Remove them with this script inspired by Travis Shears.

`pip install requests playwright`
first run will tell you to run `playwright install`
"""
import os
import random
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

duolingo_user = "YOUR_PROFILE"
duolingo_pw = ""

def get_random_wait():
    return random.randint(1, 2)

def main():
    with sync_playwright() as p:
        browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
        context = browser.new_context()
        # Uncomment the following line to enable video recording
        # context.tracing.start({"screenshots": True, "snapshots": True})
        page = context.new_page()
        page.goto("https://www.duolingo.com/?isLoggingIn=true")
        page.wait_for_timeout(get_random_wait() * 1000)

        page.click('[data-test="have-account"]')

        page.fill('[data-test="email-input"]', duolingo_user)

        page.fill('[data-test="password-input"]', duolingo_pw)

        page.click('[data-test="register-button"]')
        page.wait_for_timeout(5000)

        while True:
            page.goto(f"https://www.duolingo.com/profile/{duolingo_user}/following")
            page.wait_for_timeout((get_random_wait()) * 1000)

            try:
                friend_urls = page.eval_on_selector_all('a.Euydo[data-test="friend-entry"]', 'nodes => nodes.map(n => n.href)')
                print(friend_urls)

                for url in friend_urls:
                    page.goto(url)
                    page.wait_for_timeout((get_random_wait()) * 1000)
                    page.click('button[data-test="friend-added-button"]')
                    page.wait_for_timeout(1000)
            except Exception as e:
                print("Problem retrying:", e)

        # Uncomment the following line to stop video recording
        # context.tracing.stop({"path": "trace.zip"})
        context.close()
        browser.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()